writer, artist, birder

Author: marianlthorpe

Indie writer: young-adult adventure, short stories, verse, and observations of the natural world; editor, reviewer, part-time student of archaeology, artist, birder, walker, cook.
Empire's Daughter, Book 1 of the Empire's Legacy series, is available as an e-book from Amazon. The paperback edition, published by Arboretum Press, will be available in August 2016.

Here’s a little taste of Empire’s Exile (due out late 2018) just for today: My doubts….were meaningless; they were as unfounded as if he had doubted me because I could shoot a bow, or navigate a sunless sea. I had touched on the truth, the first night at the lake: the darkness within us both … More A Valentine’s Day Excerpt

This is a reblog of a post I wrote some time ago, but in honour of LGBT History month here in the UK, which is where I am living until the end of March, I’m reposting it. Lena’s World: Sexuality in the Empire: Empire’s Legacy Backgrounder IV In Lena’s world, the world of the Empire, sexuality is varied … More LGBT history and the Empire’s Legacy Series

Originally posted on Andrea Lundgren: I frequently get questions from fellow readers for fantasy book recommendations. I have well-known favorites (The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit) but then my list goes off to books that are less known, so I wanted to share the best with all of you. These have…